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| Gustave Dore |
Today is
D in
A to Z Challenge. As part of theme Creative Life I'll talk about the incredible French illustrator,
Gustave Dore (1832-1883). This man created engravings for some of the world's most beloved literature: Milton's Paradise Lost, Dante's Divine Comedy, Fables de la Fontaine, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven and Dore's illustrated Bible.
At the age of five he was noted for pranks, but by fifteen, he was regularly employed as an illustrator in Paris. He's most celebrated as an artist who created dark dreamscapes, as seen in his depictions of Satan, and the eerie pictures in Poe's Raven. He is also a master of landscape as a powerful backdrop for leather-winged angels and demons. He continues to inspire book illustrators-from N. C. Wyeth, to Brian Selznick. Let the illustrations conjure up their own magic for you.
Which is your favorite? Why? |
| The Raven |
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Satan from the Divine Comedies
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| The Hare and the Frogs |
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| Little Red Riding Hood |
